Silver Legion of America

The Silver Legion of America was a fascist political party in the United States which was active from 1933 to 1941. It was founded in Asheville, North Carolina in 1933 and modelled after Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts, wearing silver shirts with blue ties and supporting white supremacist and anti-Semitic views. By 1934, it had 15,000 members, and the party called for a "Christian Commonwealth" in America that would combine racism, nationalism, and theocracy, while excluding Jews and non-whites such as African-Americans. The party's membership declined to 5,000 in 1938, and the US declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy on 8 December 1941 led to the organization's demise.